Who is aware of extra about sharks than Jason “Aquaman” Momoa, host of Discovery Channel’s Shark Week? Nicely, a bunch of Kiwi children, for starters, and in a trivia contest phase, the children simply took down the superhero in a feeding frenzy. Granted, it was 5 towards one, however nonetheless, the disgrace of all of it. And to rub it in, loser Momoa needed to dunk his head in a bucket of nasty chum, per the phrases of the smackdown.
Talking of shark trivia, we discovered a couple of issues ourselves by watching Monday evening’s exhibits. Like the truth that regardless of our primal concern of changing into shark chum, it seems the beasts are more likely to activate their very own sort than humankind.
The ocean’s largest, baddest boys may simply be … ladies? Scientist Michelle Jewell has been learning the violent hierarchy of Nice Whites, and in Discovery’s Nice White Combat Membership, she hypothesizes that these monsters really talk via shark-on-shark biting. Teaming up with famed Shark Week common Tom “The Blowfish” Hird, they break down simply what’s being communicated. For instance, a chew to the gills — a “punch within the face,” in line with Hird — may very well be saying “get the hell outta right here,” or it may very well be the results of an tried mating or different shut contact. However a chew to the tail? That’s a completely completely different message, a kill shot meant to disable the sufferer’s capability to swim, leaving it ripe for the consuming. Among the episode’s sharks are so sliced, diced and scarred, they’d make Mack the Knife look away in disgust. However the largest shock? Essentially the most badly bruised of the bunch are males — who’ve been practically performed in by a lot bigger and much more aggressive females.
Orange is the brand new Nice White. In the meantime, Bruce’s jawsy brethren are the prime suspects in a unique form of assault on Monsters of the Bermuda Triangle. On this whodunnit, scientists who’d been monitoring a bunch of beacon-tagged porbeagle sharks are alarmed when two of them — pregnant females, no much less — instantly disappear in, you guessed it, the Bermuda Triangle. Figuring them for lifeless based mostly on the abrupt lack of sign, researchers-turned-gumshoe-detectives use divers, cameras and bait to slim down the record of suspects to — who else? — the poor Nice White because the wrongdoer, reasoning they’re the one factor giant sufficient to simply take down the porbeagles. Can’t an apex predator simply get a snack with out a homicide rap?
Stranger issues. Lastly, on Alien Sharks: Unusual New Worlds, divers go in the hunt for the elusive broadnose sevengill, however come up empty-handed due, they surmise, to the considerable and aggressive orcas who they concern could also be looking the traditional seven gills into extinction. Lastly, divers take one final look in an space the place the orcas wouldn’t dare go: human civilization, inside a busy harbor. Seems it’s teeming with seven gills thriving beneath the orca-free however trash-strewn marina. Who knew?
Our guess is these shrewd children who battled Momoa would know. Our recommendation, Jason: Rinse off that chum earlier than you go swimming with any Nice Whites.
Shark Week airs this week on Discovery.
